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This is great information and thank you for the helpful ideas. It will be a little bit before I can get back to work on the car, but now there are a couple different starting places. One other idea I’ve had is to start at the other side of the linkage to see if the distributor is somehow jammed. It ...

I loosened the locknut while trying to figure out what was going on and making no headway. Originally, when this problem first surfaced, it was locked down.

The linkage worked perfectly before the nut fell off, so I think the bends in the rod are fine. The pivot moves smoothly as well - that’s why this is such a mystery to me.

Hello - The previous owner of this 1926 Roadster fit it with a distributor and, while out driving one day, the spark linkage came apart under the hood. The linkage arm was found disconnected (I think the nut fell off). Here’s a picture of the linkage pushed back together without a nut IMG_3873.jpeg ...